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+From: Adrien Bustany <adrien@bustany.org>\r
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+Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add notmuch_database_flush method\r
+Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:52:21 +0300\r
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+This method explicitly flushes the pending modifications to disk. It is\r
+useful if your program has various threads, each with a read only DB and\r
+one writer thread with a read/write DB. In that case, you most likely\r
+want the writer to sync the changes to disk so that the readers can see\r
+them, without having to close and reopen the database completely.\r
+---\r
+ lib/database.cc | 18 ++++++++++++++++++\r
+ lib/notmuch.h | 4 ++++\r
+ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc\r
+index 761dc1a..1b680ab 100644\r
+--- a/lib/database.cc\r
++++ b/lib/database.cc\r
+@@ -745,6 +745,24 @@ notmuch_database_open (const char *path,\r
+ return status;\r
+ }\r
+ \r
++notmuch_status_t\r
++notmuch_database_flush(notmuch_database_t *notmuch)\r
++{\r
++ notmuch_status_t status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;\r
++\r
++ try {\r
++ if (notmuch->xapian_db != NULL &&\r
++ notmuch->mode == NOTMUCH_DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE)\r
++ (static_cast <Xapian::WritableDatabase *> (notmuch->xapian_db))->flush ();\r
++ } catch (const Xapian::Error &error) {\r
++ fprintf(stderr, "A Xapian exception occured flushing the database: %s\n",\r
++ error.get_msg().c_str());\r
++ status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION;\r
++ }\r
++\r
++ return status;\r
++}\r
++\r
+ void\r
+ notmuch_database_close (notmuch_database_t *notmuch)\r
+ {\r
+diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h\r
+index 3633bed..aef5c56 100644\r
+--- a/lib/notmuch.h\r
++++ b/lib/notmuch.h\r
+@@ -201,6 +201,10 @@ notmuch_database_open (const char *path,\r
+ notmuch_database_mode_t mode,\r
+ notmuch_database_t **database);\r
+ \r
++/* Flushes all the pending modifications to the database to disk. */\r
++notmuch_status_t\r
++notmuch_database_flush (notmuch_database_t *database);\r
++\r
+ /* Close the given notmuch database.\r
+ *\r
+ * After notmuch_database_close has been called, calls to other\r
+-- \r
+1.7.11.7\r
+\r